UNHCR Refugee-led Innovation Fund 2022 – Apply Now
Applications are invited from refugee-led organizations for the 2022 UNHCR Refugee-led Innovation Fund. Interested groups should submit their application online via the UNHCR fund application portal before the deadline.
About UNHCR Refugee-led Innovation Fund
The Refugee Led Innovation Fund champions innovation by all people who experience forced displacement. It seeks to reshape their participation in the delivery of humanitarian work by placing them at the center of decisions affecting their lives, and ensuring that they lead the identification of needs and the design of innovative solutions.
The Fund provides a holistic support mechanism combining financial resources, mentoring, and other experts directly to organizations led by people who experience forced displacement. This will enable them to design new interventions which will have a lasting positive impact on their communities.
The Refugee-Led Innovation Fund proposes a fundamental shift in program architecture. It takes a grassroots approach whereby organizations led by people who experience forced displacement are directly provided with meaningful financial resources and the support required to implement innovative approaches.
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Benefits of the Fund
- All costs related to the project activities can be covered by the grant including procurement of goods and services as well as personnel/staffing costs needed to advance the aims of the project.
- Office costs and overhead costs, if they can clearly be linked to the project, can be covered by the grant.
- The Grant cannot be used for purchasing goods or services for personal use
Who can apply
The Fund supports innovation by all organizations led by people who experience forced displacement, including refugees, asylum-seekers, the internally displaced, returnees, and stateless people.
Requirements
- Applicants will be asked to apply as a team, usually as part of an existing organization.
- The Fund accepts applications from both registered and unregistered organizations.
- Additional attention will be given to ensuring that LGBTIQ+ persons, women-led, disability-led, and other underrepresented organizations receive the necessary support and encouragement to apply to the Fund.
How to apply
Interested and eligible persons who have successfully joined a group or created one that meets the above-stated requirements should submit their group application form online by visiting the application portal here.
- The Innovation Service is operating a two-stage selection process to screen applications. Only shortlisted teams will be invited to submit a full application.
- For the first stage, organizations are invited to submit their Expression of Interest between June 17 to July 17 by providing a short overview of the challenge the team is facing and their envisioned idea or solution.
- The Innovation Service will then review these applications Shortlisted teams will be notified and will have three weeks to submit a full application. They will receive support from the Innovation Service and UNHCR country offices in submitting their full applications
Application Deadline
The deadline to submit an application is 17th July 2022.
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